From cloud overlap to PDF overlap

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 628, 2007, Pages 1877-1891

  Larson, V E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Cloud parametrization; Copula; Grid column PDF; Monte Carlo; Normal mixture; Peg hat PDF; Probability density function; Subgrid scale variability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CLOUD PARAMETRIZATION; INDEPENDENT-COLUMN APPROXIMATION;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; CORRELATION; CUMULUS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STOCHASTICITY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 36749096374     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.165     Document Type: Article

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